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Call Of The Wilde: Habs Leafs
November 18, 2017
By Brian Wilde
A vital game for the Habs to have a winning home stand and to recover from the embarrassment of a loss to the Coyotes as it was described by the Habs Head Coach Claude Julien. The Leafs headed into the game with 5 straight wins. So to the Wilde Horses we go…
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Brian i love your optimism but this sounds like someone making an excuse for a bad relationship . “He/she is fine, just once in a while they screw up and treat me like garbage, but they say their sorry and things will get better” No! They do not get better- why? Because they are not that good!
This team will not get better- why? Because they are not that good. So they skated close to Toronto- big deal- their 16 shots were from far out- there was no one close to drive in rebounds- there was no coordinated sustained pressure, no waves of attack. Not like what the Leafs did.
Confidence and scoring come from talent , talent knows it can score, talent finds ways to score. This team does not have the talent. MB has made this mess and it is unsalvaageable without a massive rebuild. His move for Drouin was a panic move forced on him due to his inability to find scoring. He was naive enough to think that a youngster on a star studded would have the same results on a team that could not score with Radulov carrying the mail. Furthermore he traded the only blue chip offensive D in our system since Subban without a real, creible plan for the D.
So he assembles a slow, immobile D crew that is anachronistic in today’s NHL, hopes that an offence that couldn’t score the year before will explode with the addition of a young Montrealer who was never asked to carry a team before and then he looks skyward when they are blown out on home ice.
This team is not lacking confidence. This team is giving us what they really are. Their only wins this homestand were against teams on the backend of back to backs.
No this team is flawed, disorganized, defensively and offensively challenged wasting the prime years of some good talent. They have far too many holes to fill regardless of how much money you have saved away, too many bad contracts given to bad players, and nobody on the farm who can come in and REALLY make a difference.
We have become the Leafs of years ago- we make excuses and defend our team and rationalize the lineup to make ourselves feel good, when in reality everyone else knows the emperor has no clothes.
They are working hard, they are skating their butts off, but they cannot score and they cannot defend because the talent is not there and that falls squarely on the shoulders of our GM and I do not have the confidence in him anymore to right the ship.